The great southern rock band known as Lynyrd Skynyrd produced a number of hit song and best-selling LPs placing them in the pantheon of rock bands that will long be remembered. I can't in good faith give this title a lengthy reviews though I will do my best. I gave it four stars because the plane crash was well done, especially given the film's low budget. You made this into a tale of your wisdom and heroism it has nothing to do with the band. Artimus is the only member of the band that gets fleshed out at all even Ronnie had little substance as portrayed in the film (and could they not find an actor capable of doing a Southern accent to play Allen, who had a very strong accent?). Artimus went for help alone and got shot (TOTALLY false road crew members Marc Frank and Steve Lawler were with him, and he totally did NOT get shot by the farmer). Artimus was the voice of reason, throughout the whole film. Artimus knew exactly what was wrong with the plane, even when the pilots were clueless. Everyone did coke and banged groupies except Artimus. Really, this is incredibly self-congratulatory, to the point of being cringeworthy. The title should have been "The Story of Saint Artimus Pyle". I am a Skynyrd superfan and an avid amateur band historian, so although I had my misgivings about this film - mostly how vehemently opposed Gary and the families of Ronnie, Steve, and Allen were to its release - I had to watch it anyway. For this reason Skynyrd opened the show with it (!)at one of those totally unrealistic movie gigs - you know, social distancing where a mosh pit should be, Skynyrd at their peak playing a stage the size of a cigarette packet.Īs a means of making life easier for Artimus, great - as a movie, virtually worthless. Then I found that that brief blast of music was all there was - it being a cover version they were allowed to play it. When I heard the band launch into (a really poor version of) Call me the Breeze early on, I thought good, stories of no access to the music were untrue. He's an expert pilot ("Four years in the marines!"), he can do emergency surgery, he can struggle for miles with serious injuries (I'm happy to say he suffered torn cartilage in his chest and nothing more serious in the crash) then help with the rescue effort blitzing anyone who stands between him and his bandmates (at the crash site and at the hospital). No, your DENTIST Ronnie Van Zant! It starts as it means to go on.Īrtie bookends the movie, giving his band APB a plug at the end, and boy, does he inhabit the movie in between.
In the first scene Artie (or the actor playing him) is playing drums and his wife alerts him - "Ronnie Van Zant is on the phone!" "From Lynyrd Skynyrd?" he replies. I just hope he got a nice earner out of it because the movie has no merit whatsoever and helping Artimus stay afloat is the only positive I can glean from it. It hurts to write this, it hurts to kick Artimus, but this is dreadful. Lost all respect for the guy after watching this. In his ego centric world there is no mention of the other surviving members, or any real acknowledgement of those who died. The last 30 minutes is basically Artimus' recovery and post crash trauma.
The most excruciating scene lasts for close to ten minutes, where Artimus clambers over hills and through the undergrowth and across rivers to go and find help. He single handedly realises the plane is in trouble, discovers all the bodies, then helps to rescue some of them. Of course after the crash it's all about Artimus again, being the hero of the day. The fatal crash itself is an overdrawn, over melodramatic segment, with music more suited to a soap opera. Typical dialogue, Artimus, "I was an aviation sergeant in the marines for four years, what's going on with that fuel gauge, it's showing empty.Jeez man, it sounds like the right engine is about to blow." Funny he didn't exercise that knowledge after the previous flight when flames were coming out the engine. The acting is, without exception, terrible.
#AFTERMATH MOVIE TRUE STORY PLANE CRASH PLUS#
Plus all of their ridiculously naive conversations must be supposition, as both perished in the crash.
The pilots are made out to be a pair of incompetant buffoons, ejecting fuel instead of redirecting it, not filling the fuel tanks up completely etc. The rest of the band are just a supporting cast. The only other band member that gets much of a look in is Cassie Gaines. Very centered around Artimus being the good guy, while painting Ronnie in a fairly poor light for most of the film. Being a lifelong Skynyrd fan, I so wanted to like this movie, but it was mostly dreadful.
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